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Rare books, manuscripts, special collections. Also allotments, nature, etc.

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Headstrongways @headstrongways.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Always worth a visit to this gem if you're near Saffron Walden
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Headstrongways @headstrongways.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
It's a wonderful place for a picnic!
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Headstrongways @headstrongways.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I am so sorry Katharine.
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Headstrongways @headstrongways.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Walking the Rocque Ring - The Limits of London in 1746. Part 1 alondoninheritance.com/london-journ...
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Walking the Rocque Ring - The Limits of London in 1746. Part 1 - A London Inheritance
The start of my walk at Horse Ferry, circling London at the edge of the built city as in Rocque's map of 1746 - the Rocque Ring
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Headstrongways @headstrongways.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Hurrah!
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Headstrongways @headstrongways.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
J McLean, Carrickfergus, is persuasive. I was trying to make sense of Thilean...
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Headstrongways @headstrongways.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
That depends on airport. I heard that Prague airport security still wants to inspect liquid containers and they must indicate volume (or original volume) of contents
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Headstrongways @headstrongways.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Fantastic photos!
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Headstrongways @headstrongways.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Great blog post by Lara Mayr of @britishlibrary.bsky.social on the papers of Michael Hamburger, translator of of Hölderlin, Celan and WG Sebald among others. And a taste of some of the essential cataloguing work now being done with "hidden collections".
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Headstrongways @headstrongways.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
This was a great overview. I'd recommend it to anyone starting out researching early modern English legal records, if repeated
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The Bibliographical Society @bibsoc.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
For this month’s Council’s Choice, Matthew Payne highlights England’s Immigrants 1330-1550, a database containing the names of over 64,000 people known to have migrated to England during the period of the Hundred Years’ War and the Black Death, the Wars of the Roses and the Reformation.
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Council’s Choice for June 2026 - Bibliographical Society
England’s Immigrants 1330-1550 England’s Immigrants 1330-1550 is a fully-searchable database containing the names of over 64,000 people known to have migrated to England during the period of the Hundr...
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The Bibliographical Society @bibsoc.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
While a database of medieval people drawn from original sources is always valuable, the particular interest for book historians is the helpful addition of numerous advanced search fields, that enable you to search by occupation, social status, place of origin etc.
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Council’s Choice for June 2026 - Bibliographical Society
England’s Immigrants 1330-1550 England’s Immigrants 1330-1550 is a fully-searchable database containing the names of over 64,000 people known to have migrated to England during the period of the Hundr...
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Headstrongways @headstrongways.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Hoard your phone battery!
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Headstrongways @headstrongways.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Toothbrush, earplugs, eyemask, tissues. Viel spass! And I hope your suitcase wheels don't disintegrate, as mine just have in Sud Tirol
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Headstrongways @headstrongways.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Staying cool @everyheron.bsky.social
Heron perching on a branch in the sun, with wings spread wide open
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
And now we have Lucy Snow (Keele University and British Library). She's researching 18th-century Knowledge Work in the BL's Harleian Collection. Today we're all agog about LLMs; in earlier times, much knowledge instead resided in private collections of manuscripts. 3/x
Rectangular image of Harley Golden Gospels, Incipit to Luke, 800–825 (sourced in haste from Wikipedia)
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Headstrongways @headstrongways.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
I'm so sorry, what a waste
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The Bibliographical Society @bibsoc.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Our next lecture will take place on Tuesday 21 April 2026 at 5.30 p.m., at the Society of Antiquaries, London, and online via Zoom. Matthew Payne, Keeper of the Muniments at Westminster Abbey (also Treasurer and a Vice-President of the Society) will deliver the Graham Pollard memorial lecture.
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Bibliographical Society Lecture| 21 April 2026
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Headstrongways @headstrongways.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Maybe the nest was far away
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Headstrongways @headstrongways.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Another lovely skylark! I only ever manage see them disappearing high overhead
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Headstrongways @headstrongways.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Hat honour! No doffing!
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Headstrongways @headstrongways.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
I'm sorry for your loss Sarah. It was a beautiful obituary
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Bram De Ridder @bramderidder.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
🌿🌾 You like gardens? You like history? And games? Then rejoice, because LOBELIUS is here! Thanks to official partners, Museum Plantin-Moretus and the Meise Botanical Garden, the players can skim through the 1581 Kruydtboeck by Matthias de l´Obel. Can you make the most beautiful early modern garden?
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Headstrongways @headstrongways.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Finally made these and they were simple, light and delicious as described - thank you
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Headstrongways @headstrongways.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
It's a wonderful photograph!
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Catherine Angerson @sonofanger.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
A recent acquisition of letters of Dorothy Bussy, translator and novelist, and of her daughter, the artist Janie Bussy, has now been catalogued. New @britishlibrary.bsky.social blog post by Dominic Newman: www.bl.uk/stories/blog...
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Letters of Dorothy and Janie Bussy
A recent acquisition of letters of Dorothy Bussy, translator and novelist, and of her daughter, the artist Janie Bussy, has now been catalogued.
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Headstrongways @headstrongways.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Long Mynd today and some welcome refreshment @laura-elseplace.bsky.social
Track across moorland with distant hillsThe Bridges pub, a whitewashed 18th century building with a big red horseshoe painted on the front
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Medieval Manuscripts @blmedieval.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
We have an incredible new PhD placement opportunity to help support the development and curation of our major exhibition on the Norman Conquest, opening in October 2027. Learn more and apply through the link below! www.bl.uk/services/res...
A detail from the Chronicle of Battle Abbey, showing a historiated initial enclosing a portrait of William the Conqueror, sitting enthroned, wearing a crown and holding a sceptre, with a dog at his feet. The initial is formed from a winged creature.
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Headstrongways @headstrongways.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Brilliant, thanks! So pleased not to have missed it!
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Headstrongways @headstrongways.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Was this recorded?
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British Library @britishlibrary.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Apply by 9 March for @kingsartshums.bsky.social MA in Early Modern English Literature, taught in partnership with us. Find out more about this rich and unique course where you will learn from our expert curators and examine rare texts in our collections. Find out more here: link.bl.uk/kpr
An illustration from the page of a book from the 1600s showing two men playing a game of chess. Text reads A game at chess as it hath sundrey times acted at the Globe on Bankside.
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Headstrongways @headstrongways.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Same!!!
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The Bibliographical Society @bibsoc.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
On Tuesday 3 March 2026, at 15.30 GMT, the Bibliographical Society will travel virtually to the Vatican Apostolic Library. Founded in 1450 by Pope Nicholas V to promote Humanistic studies, the Vatican Library is one of the world’s most famous libraries.
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Bibliographical Society Virtual Winter Visit
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Headstrongways @headstrongways.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Beautiful!
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Headstrongways @headstrongways.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Exciting! Broad beans?
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Headstrongways @headstrongways.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Nice blog on Royal College of Physicians collections from @girlinthe.bluesky.social - libraryservices.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2026/02/h...
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Heritage Library, Royal College of Physicians – Library services
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Headstrongways @headstrongways.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Presumably they put in a lower bid. Not hard, as they seem to employ one wretched telephonist, ignore queries via website, and don't have a functioning system for registering. And have a reputation for paying below minimum wage
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Headstrongways @headstrongways.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
The scale of their failure is enormous, from the "portal" to payment of new pensions and death in service benefits. It's beyond belief
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Headstrongways @headstrongways.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
In BL organisational terms Modern Archives & MSS section covers 1600-1950, 1950 to present day is "Contemporary"
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Jesse Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Coptic spell to Acquire a Beautiful Voice, 6th–7th century CE, Egypt, ink on papyrus, 37.3 x 25.4 cm (Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, New Haven) archives.yale.edu/repositories...
Worn papyrus with drawings of figures, symbols, and writing in Coptic. More here https://smarthistory.org/coptic-magical-text/
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Headstrongways @headstrongways.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Oral Histories of the Environmental Movement: Making an Activist Archive url: academic.oup.com/hwj/article/...
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Oral Histories of the Environmental Movement: Making an Activist Archive
Abstract. This article considers the making of an archive of environmental activism through the life histories of 100 campaigners involved in environmental
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Headstrongways @headstrongways.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Unch 2 has arrived to brighten up the January days. Decided to staple the solutions pages together to thwart any cheating
Colourful front cover of Unch crossword magazine issue 2Back cover of crossword magazine with staple
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Headstrongways @headstrongways.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Literary archaeology and a #provenance spreadsheet for Oscar Wilde manuscripts at @britishlibrary.bsky.social
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Headstrongways @headstrongways.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
I'm sorry, that is so hard
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Christopher Hilton @chilton-bb.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Great news here about Ronald Blythe's archive. (Keep an eye out, too, for what Essex Wildlife Trust is doing with his house, which was left to them: it needs a fair bit of work before it can be made accessible to the public but it's going to be great when that's done. www.essexwt.org.uk/bottengoms)
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Headstrongways @headstrongways.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Brrr!
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Headstrongways @headstrongways.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
I love this microdiary
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Headstrongways @headstrongways.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Agree on the mushroom brush, though attractive. Also the banana shaped banana keeper, and the mashed potato baller (vintage, probably from an ancient school kitchen),the blow torch we never had any fuel for...
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Headstrongways @headstrongways.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Gorgeous colours
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